Wish I had thought to put this one in This Week in Hardball History, but a day after Puig was benched, this is oh-so-very appropriate.

On this day in 1925, Babe Ruth showed up late for batting practice after a night on the town. Yankees manager Miller Huggins suspended Ruth and slapped a $5,000 fine on him — which, adjusted for inflation is around $66,000 — for disobeying orders. Ruth was forced to apologize before he was reinstated nine days later.

Ruth finally arrived a few minutes before game time and Huggins jumped all over him. Ruth explained he had been at a Negro League game watching the St. Louis Stars, and said “he didn’t need any batting practice to hit against a bunch of bums like the Browns.”

Puig is a mere piker. Unless of course he said he was late and loafing and stuff due to the fact that opponents were the Marlins and Cubs.

In other news, can you imagine how this would’ve been covered if we had sports talk radio, the Internet, cable news and various social media platforms? Mercy.